Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-11-22
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Ae eboal WV SAplh ~ 1857 III
clouds Of dust carried by a blizzardiy
blow we rolled out of Yankton facing
towards the north, There was three in
the company CLOSELY packed. The prepon
derenoe of avolrdupois was to the wind
ward side, this p%racaution being called
for 60 keep the craft right side up As
We left Ysnkton miles behind there wa
less dust, lees wind and more cold. at
Jour and y half O'Clock we came into port
at the old Whesler place between nine
and ten miles north OF Yankton. The
Wheeler quarter to-day is owned by j.
A. Hicks, formerly OF New York, Oneida
county, later from Wisconsin. Mr.. Hicks
has been monarch on the Wheeler claim
with none to to dispute his right for the
last three years. One mile north and q
half mile east will bring any disposed TO
make the trip to the foot OF Pisgsh's
heights. Not the veritsbie Nebo range
in the hand OF Moab east OF Jordan,
where the Jewish law giver was shown
the land Of promise, but the mount
Pisgah Of the hills OF Beaver creek in
Yankton county. One nights sleep under
the hospitable roof OF Friend Hicks
found the mercury down to ten above.
Then came the plan Of climbing the
Moubitsh range and standing on the
breezy heights OF Plsgah. Vain was it for
mine host so dissaade your correspond
emit from the trip, vain words to say, 81
think you will rue your purpose to CO.,
but he was not easily sweryed from his
purpose wher onoe his eye was towards
the heights of Pisgah. So two men and
one child faced toward the heights.
The way was rough as the breaksge of o
leaf of the bnggy spring could testify.
Your correspondent minded to make a
short cut, on foot, through q sorry tree
claim where the Russian thistle claimed
the field. Thrice the aged pilgrim defined
his position, as our lawyers ssy, coming
face to facsS with a bed of thistle down
armed to the teeth, but his recumbent
pasture was of shor. duration for he. was
soon up and climbing. The buggy
which had rounded the tree claim was
on the heights first. The pedestrian
was not far behind. When the crown of
Pisgsh was reached ever though the
mercury had gone down twenty-five de-
grees below. She sight-seer would have
been amply rewarded with the glorious
vision open before him. There runs
Beaver creek winding lie way towards
the southeast as il hastening to unite it's
watera With the Dakota river water and
with combined force make a contrlbu-
tstion to the waters OF the Big Muddy.
From those heights the far off lands of
Nebraska charm the vision. BonHomms
county and Scotland are seen in the DIS
tanoe. Nearer riaen the miniature Alpine
heights Alps on Alps from the lowest bed
of tho '.ruin" TO the highest Greet Of the
Nebo range. A house here and there in
some cozy nook or sheltered spot. Look
ing aoutherly the eye ia richly rewarded
by evidences Of human industry. Hun
dreds of stacks Of hay dos the prairie,
human habitations nestled amid the
slightly groves, the numerous fields but
lately relieved Of their precious burdens
of we'll filed ears OF corn now safely
.cribbed, while the believing herds,
.couated by the hundreds, CLEAN the
fields. During mine hosts three years.
stay he has made . fair beginning with
that portion of farm work which farmers
regard rs that which yields the profits
stock raising. In the pen We found q
goodly supply OK fat porkers, too fst TO
we'll reveal the hog in eating. These
heavy swine are ready for market, only
waiting Tor the psieea to at. Most OF
all we found our friend well stocked
with good books to read, among which
We noticed some of our best poetical
volumes, not inappropriate alongside
the organ inside and beautiful landscape
outside. More, to head the lest in read.
lug matter. We found the Press and D..
kotaisn. Over yonder, towards the
south, two miIed away from the heights,
where any n 30 minded can "view the
landoape Ger" can see the grove, the
fields OF our enterprising friends-the
rostling farmers, the father and the son,
Mr.. John Rsdsr and his son Henry J..
Rsder, where you will find among she
reading matter cf the household q copy
Of the Press and Dakotaian weekly. The
Reders have a halt section OF. we'll i'm
proved land extending on both sides of
the railroad. eighty head Of COWS, heifers
and steers, ITO in the swine herd, which
two weeks hence will find in the Utica
stock pen awaititing transportation.
Nearly half of the number-forty-6ve
tat hogs-is no small income for the toll
of the farmer. If it was quadrupled
glad indeed we should be, for these
farmers arg real workers.
The Reder farmers, true to their ma
sivity, for they claim Michigan as their
native state have put ont eight acres in
small fruit, the grape, blackberry, rasp-
berry. straw berry, etc not leaving out
OF the enumeration the wild pllm, thick
cts which line the road way through the
grove to the house. O.her farmers we
could mention equally successful in the
farming line If We had been in q position
to get the figures. The lands about
Utica arc settled by men who have come
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